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Advisory
Prepare your webMethods Integration migration to containers
Preparing for a migration to containers is essential for successfully modernizing your IT infrastructure, especially when shifting from traditional setups to containerized environments for webMethods Microservices Runtime (MSR). Embracing containerization offers opportunities for greater scalability, flexibility, and efficiency in managing your webMethods applications.
Navigating this transition requires expertise across multiple disciplines to ensure your infrastructure can handle increasing transaction loads and establish a cloud-native architecture for improved system performance and scalability. Leverage our expertise to provide you with recommendations and support to successfully navigate your migration to containers.
What do I get?
With this offer, you will:
- Assess your existing application, understanding how to break it down into lightweight integration services for efficient hosting within containers.
- Gain insights into development practices facilitating a smooth transition to a containerization-based working model aligned with DevSecOps processes.
- Enhance your understanding of deployment architectures for hosting webMethods runtimes, seamlessly integrating with containerization principles.
- Explore deployment strategies leveraging Kubernetes container orchestration platforms for scalable, highly available, and manageable containerized services.
- Embrace the principles of observability within a containerized ecosystem for implementing effective monitoring and logging mechanisms.
- Evaluate how to gain real-time insights into container health and performance of product runtimes to ensure optimal operation.
- Strengthen your awareness of additional security considerations for containerized applications.
What can I expect?
This is a 20-day engagement that takes place over the course of 4 weeks. During this time, you will work with the consultant to understand your deployment architecture, observability, security, and agile development practices in preparation for your migration to containers.
Who benefits from the Prepare your webMethods Integration migration to containers Fast Track Service?
- CIOs, IT Directors, and Business Enterprise Architects optimize resource utilization, enhance system performance, and bolster security measures, ultimately driving agility, scalability, and efficiency across their organization's digital ecosystem.
- Solution Architects, Program/Technical/Development Leads streamline development processes, improve scalability, and ensure seamless integration with DevSecOps practices, ultimately accelerating the transition to containerization and maximizing the benefits of modernized IT infrastructure.
More details
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How it works
- Your consultant conducts an initial consultation with your team to gather essential documents and gain insights into the application landscape for analysis.
- After assessing the documents, the consultant leads a kickoff meeting to set the tone for collaboration and outline the objectives for key stakeholders during the engagement.
- Next, your consultant leads your team through a series of strategic workshops to better understand the landscape. Topics include Enterprise and Solution Architecture; webMethods Platform; Infrastructure for Container Deployments; Security Architecture; Observability; and Test Architecture Impacts.
- Following the workshops, your consultant presents a Migration Report to key stakeholders outlining recommendations and next steps.
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Service results
By the end of the engagement, you will have received support to:
- Evaluate your current landscape, identifying areas for containerization, with a special emphasis on optimizing integrations to lightweight services.
- Review and recommend deployment strategies tailored for container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.
- Review your existing DevOps processes, including CI/CD.
- Gain security insights to safeguard your containerized applications.
- Unlock real-time performance visibility with recommendations for designing robust monitoring and logging mechanisms.
- Assess the impact on your test architecture to address comprehensive coverage and performance visibility.
- Document the findings in a high-level container migration roadmap outlining recommendations and next steps.
Additional Fast Track Service information
Software AG’s Sales and Customer Success team members can provide pricing details upon request. All business will be conducted in English unless otherwise agreed to by Software AG Consultant and customer. Delivery will occur within the customer’s standard business days and standard business hours.
